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Jake Monaco
Monaco at the 2024 WonderCon
Background information
Genres	Orchestral, Classical, Ambient, Rock
Occupation(s)	Composer, Arranger, Instrumentalist
Instrument(s)	Guitar, Piano, Bass
Years active	2007-present

Jake Monaco is an American film and TV composer. He currently scores Amazon Prime Video's The Stinky & Dirty Show, Netflix's Dinotrux, and Warner Bros. Animation's Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!.

Career

Monaco began playing guitar in high school, later touring with a group while attending the University of Richmond in Virginia. A few years after graduating, his bandmates opted to take up non-musical professional careers.

At the suggestion of a friend, Monaco enrolled in a film scoring course at University of Southern California. He has stated that although he had never had interest in scoring as a child, it was these classes that piqued his interest, explaining that he was "sucked in" to the world of scoring almost immediately.

Monaco began assisting for composer Christophe Beck after graduating from the USC program, and through this connection he has contributed music to The Hangover film series, The Muppets, and Get Hard. Monaco credits the time he spent assisting Beck as key to his success as a scorer, and has described assistant positions as "some of the best education and experience a young composer can receive". After assisting Christophe Beck for eight years, Monaco made the decision to begin scoring on his own.

Monaco credits some of his inspiration as a composer to a stable of unorthodox stringed instruments he acquired from Rich Briggs. Monaco's studio includes custom-built guitars including a hub cap guitar, a copper pot guitar and a wine box bass.

Discography

Feature films

Short films

References

1. "Interview: Composer Jake Monaco - Movie Mom". Movie Mom. 2016-09-30. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
2. ^ Geektown (2016-10-01), Interview With Composer Jake Monaco (And His Interesting Collection Of Instruments!), retrieved 2017-01-19
3. "How Jake Monaco uses custom instruments in his fantastic scores". The Audio Spotlight. 2016-10-12. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
4. "JOB HACKS | How To Be A Self-Employed Composer". Inverse. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
5. Composer Quest (2016-09-30), Jake Monaco's Studio Tour, retrieved 2017-01-19

External links

• Jake Monaco at IMDb
• Interview with Jake Monaco, A Podcast Named Scooby-Doo!, October 2017

• American film score composers
• American male film score composers
• American multi-instrumentalists
• American music arrangers
• American television composers
• Living people
• American male television composers
• Oceanside International Film Festival award winners